AquaticResearch1

Already another stradic... Bloody hell. You'd be loaded, insane or both to spend almost $1500 on an Okuma! Hope Alan hawk does a review before many (if any) people shell out. Penn Slammer is interesting, I suspect it only shares a name with the current (now old ) slammers. Being a cheap skate like I am, it's out of my range for a while though

@plankton Seemed pretty mixed, spoke too 2 lots of blokes that's been on the jetty. 1 pair had 20odd 30cm ST's, the others had nothing. Might have just been the 1 school come through.

Faced the weather of doom yesterday for a couple of ~30cm trouties. Not great but it preserves what was left of my sanity a little longer.

Kings on lure or livies? I use an Okuma Azores 4-6 pe 7'8" for landbased kings and rays. If I chase anything powerful off a jetty it's what I end up using. Extremely tough, durable rod thus far, but not ideal for chucking the lighter stickbaits and lures very far, particularly running heavy traces.

I agree with Moonlighter, just an old and cranky looken one

Geez that's no good mate. I've only done this in summer, but If you're after rays, go to the end of Stansbury jetty in the run in, chuck a few chopped up fish frames around the sand hole and burley for gar. Catch gar and have your ray bait in plain sight, see ray glide over and start munching on it, strike, game on. We once had >6 rays cruising around the end there

Small blades or 2.5 inch Zmans are the go in general. If you're only buying one type, consider where you'll be fishing. In Dams the blades are great for casting and catch plenty of fish. In creeks + rivers the grubs are more snag resistant and are able to be worked slower. Also not as hard on the pocket when you inevitably lose a few.

Stansbury on an incoming is great in the summer months at least mate. I like the sand patch cause you see them but have hooked them all along the jetty itself

Are rays still a consistent presence in winter? Only started chasing them last summer but if I could potentially lock horns with 'em in winter I'd be open to that.

Depth is important, as is water quality, but there is not alot you can do about that beyond limiting stock access. How old is the dam? Been established long?

Would be hard trying to get your first up the bridge mate. Adelaide Hills is definitely a Redfin hotspot. They'll be a little trickier to catch aswell coming into winter.

Picked one up for ~50 ish $ my self just the other day. Finding the length handy. Caught its first reddie tonight, coming in at 38cm

Carp are good fun on the little reels Mick. Would be worth a crach if you want to tick it off quickly.

Not that i know of Mick. I know that you can get smaller reels online, like the Sienna 500. Also think I recall somebody on here having a reel called a "tica 500" or something along those lines, which was extremely small.

For all round value Imo the Sienna is king, you don't really feel a difference 'till that $120 ish price range. In the 1000's I run a Symetre FJ, its copped a dunking and continued like new. If I were wading frequently the Sienna would be my go to, if not, splash a little more on a Symetre

Here's a particularly curious Seal that came along at the Cape Jervis Boat Ramp a couple of weeks ago (may have posted in another thread). Tally for the day was a boat limit of snapper, but no Tuna hook ups at all unfortunately.

Cheers Smokey, I've sent you a pm. Thanks to everyone for helping out.

Yeah pretty much Smokey. Just a nice small clip to use on blades etc. Not sure how big those are w/o size reference but the appear small enough.

Cheers Fellas. I had heard of the decoy snaps, but never seen them before. I'll have a look at those shops.

Just wondering if anybody know where one can purchase the tiny snaps that come stock standard on blades etc but of slightly higher quality? I tend to eventually lose them off my blades and a normal snap swivel tangles the hooks too much. Cheers AR1

How are your freshwater fishing endeavours going Berg? Found many places? Had much success?

Will be interesting to see the video mate.

Hmmmmm, if I'm not mistaken there was a report that came out years ago that essentially shut down legal trout stocking in all but a couple of creeks/rivers. I think the Broughton and maybe the light are still stocked? Can anyone confirm? It me it sounds as if SAFFA have struck up a deal with the bloke to stock the stretch of river/creek with trout in return for allowing them to fish it. Who knows, maybe some money changed hands. They just say that they'd prefer only club members fish the river and thus he only lets them in? Really wouldn't suprise me, ultimately its his choice who he h

Generally I just use a running rig. Main line - Small ball sinker (if windy - 10lb mono - hook dropper (#4 suicide - 30cm line - 1/0 circle hook Corn on the #4 and bread on the 1/0 circle 'till you figure out what they are biting best on. Carp is ridiculously oily and bloody, should be perfect crab bait.

Yep, as everyone has said its simply more fun, more challenging and more comfortable of the little 1000 sized reels. I've landed near 3ft carp on a Symetre and 2-6lb rod. Was great fun and a challenge. The only difference I find is if, say I was fishing in the Onk or Coorong or similar and I caught a just legal ST. If I had my 1000 and 4lb line I'd be nervous if a metre plus mulloway steamed off to say the least, while if I had a 2500 with 200 yards of 8lb I'd still be sh!tting bricks but I'd be far more confident in landing it. In summary, if you have two combo's for inshore fishing, have